Live Auction 9555Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach
A Shoki Imari Dish
Lot 41

A Shoki Imari Dish

THREE CHARACTER MARK DAI MIN SEI, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 17TH CENTURY)

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 1,500

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A Shoki Imari Dish
Three character mark Dai Min Sei, Edo period (early-mid 17th century)
Decorated in underglaze blue with a poppy encircled by four stylised lotus petals, the reverse with a long trailing vine
20.4cm. diam.

Specialist note

For other examples of Shoki Imari dishes with poppies, see Yamashita Sakuro, Koimari Sometsuke-zara [Blue-and-white Dishes of Old Imari] (Yuzankaku, 1970), pl. 33 and 34, pp. 124 - 125